The Baby Care Questionnaire: A measure of parenting principles and practices during infancy

Winstanley, Alice; Gattis, Merideth

doi:10.1016/j.infbeh.2013.08.004

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“…All study procedures were reviewed by the Cardiff University School of Psychology's research ethics committee, the National Health Service's Research & Development, and Local Research Ethics Committee. Mothers consented to participate soon after delivering their baby at which time they completed the Baby Care Questionnaire (BCQ; Winstanley & Gattis, 2013 ) and Concepts of Development Questionnaire (CODQ; Sameroff & Feil, 1985 ) for the first time. Mothers completed these two questionnaires again 5 months later.…”

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“…The BCQ ( Winstanley & Gattis, 2013 ) asks parents to rate 30 statements about caregiving on a 4-point Likert scale ranging from strongly disagree (1) to strongly agree (4). The BCQ contains 2 subscales—structure and attunement.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Second, we measured parenting principles of caregiving, which are specific personal codes that guide caregiving during infancy ( Winstanley & Gattis, 2013 ) rather than the general level parents can think about development (as described above). Caregiving principles reflect how parents make decisions about infant care.…”

Section: Consistency Of Maternal Cognitions and Principles Across Thementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Structure and attunement are related to parenting practices. For example, attunement is positively related to bed-sharing, breastfeeding, and holding in parents of infants under 18 months ( Winstanley & Gattis, 2013 ).…”

Section: Consistency Of Maternal Cognitions and Principles Across Thementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Support of the use of infants’ cues in this way is a central focus in the caregiving principle of attunement. In addition, the parenting practices of breastfeeding and holding (in particular, skin-to-skin touch) are advocated when caring for preterm infants (e.g., Flacking, Ewald, & Wallin, 2011 ; Tessier et al, 1998 ), and breastfeeding and holding practices are related to stronger support of attunement ( Winstanley & Gattis, 2013 ). Therefore, parents’ support of attunement (with or without structure) could be important for positive infant outcomes following prematurity.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Consistency of maternal cognitions and principles across the first five months following preterm and term deliveries

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HighlightsConsistency in group level (continuity) and individual level (stability) was examined longitudinally for caregiving principles (structure and attunement) and cognitions (categorical thinking, perspectivist thinking, complexity of thought) in mothers of preterm and term infants from birth to 5 months old.Attunement was continuous and stable in mothers of preterm and term infants.Structure was continuous in both groups but stable only in mothers of term infants.Complexity of thought was continuous in both groups, perspectivist thinking increased in both groups but only for first-time mothers, and categorical thinking increased only in mothers of preterm infants.Categorical thinking, perspectivist thinking, and complexity of thought were stable in mothers of both preterm and term infants.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

Section: Consistency Of Maternal Cognitions and Principles Across Thementioning

confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

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Children's Parents

Bornstein

2015

Handbook of Child Psychology and Developmental Science

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This chapter surveys central issues concerning children's parents. The chapter first addresses the two faces of parenting, parenting as a phase of adult development and parenting as an instrumental activity vis‐à‐vis children. Next, the chapter briefly overviews the origins of parenting studies, theories of parenting, and future directions in parenting research. The following two sections of the chapter address the principal actors in the human drama of caregiving, mothers, fathers, and children's other principal caregivers, and, then, cognitions and practices that principally instantiate parenting. With the actors, attitudes, and actions associated with parenting introduced, arguments for the meaningfulness of parenting effects are then evaluated in correlational designs and various kinds of experiments that demonstrate the value of parenting (challenges to parenting effects from behavior genetics and group socialization theory are also addressed). Parents and parenting vary tremendously, and determinants of parenting are a major issue in the field; the multicausal origins of parenting in characteristics of parents, characteristics of children, and contextual characteristics are explored next. The chapter closes with some practical issues‐;for example neglect, abuse, and parenting interventions‐;before reaching more general conclusions.

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Theory of mind processing in expectant fathers: Associations with prenatal oxytocin and parental attunement

Cardenas

Stoycos

Sellery

et al. 2021

Developmental Psychobiology

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Social cognition may facilitate fathers' sensitive caregiving behavior. We administered the Why‐How Task, an fMRI task that elicits theory of mind processing, to expectant fathers (n = 39) who also visited the laboratory during their partner's pregnancy and provided a plasma sample for oxytocin assay. Three months postpartum, fathers reported their beliefs about parenting. When rating “Why” an action was being performed versus “How” the action was being performed (Why > How contrast), participants showed activation in regions theorized to support theory of mind, including the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex and superior temporal sulcus. Fathers' prenatal oxytocin levels predicted greater signal change during the Why > How contrast in the inferior parietal lobule. Both prenatal oxytocin and attunement parenting beliefs were associated with Why > How activation in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, a theory of mind region implicated in emotion regulation. Posterior parahippocampal gyrus and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex activation during the Why > How contrast predicted fathers' attunement parenting beliefs. In conclusion, fathers' neural activation when engaging in a theory of mind task was associated with their prenatal oxytocin levels and their postpartum attunement parenting beliefs. Results suggest biological and cognitive components of fathering may track with the theory of mind processing.

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The Baby Care Questionnaire: A measure of parenting principles and practices during infancy

Cited by 44 publications

References 56 publications

Consistency of maternal cognitions and principles across the first five months following preterm and term deliveries

Consistency of maternal cognitions and principles across the first five months following preterm and term deliveries

Children's Parents

Theory of mind processing in expectant fathers: Associations with prenatal oxytocin and parental attunement

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